Alabama Power Crop

This poster is an homage to a legume. Unless you’re allergic, almost everyone enjoys some kind of food or candy with peanuts in it. While they are yet another crop most frequently associated with Georgia, over half of all the peanuts sold in the United States are grown within a one hundred mile radius of Dothan, Alabama– home of the National Peanut Festival. Planting peanuts saved south Alabama farmers from total financial devastation when an insect known as the Boll-Weevil infested and destroyed Alabama cotton crops. Now the peanut is king of the wiregrass region of Alabama. 

Process

 I drew the peanut plant using Procreate then exported a hi-res PNG file to Adobe Illustrator. For the radial, two-tone sun ray effect I created an ellipse with no fill and made the stroke over 200 points in size. I then converted the stroke to a dashed line and expanded the object into a shape. From there, I adjusted it to the size I desired and placed it over the yellow rectangle. For the cross section of the ground, I used the ellipse tool to create a large circle I then placed over a rectangle.  For the texture effect on the soil, I once again used transparency masks and a texture I created myself in Procreate. My goal was to create the feeling of the late afternoon sun beaming down on a peanut plant.